The figure of $24,381,700 under "Gross Appropriation"
does not exactly match the enacted figure in Act No.523. The Act shows an
appropriation of $12.4 million. This was later revised upward. The author took
the liberty of rolling the supplemental appropriation into this analysis to
reflect the true potential savings from eliminating the program.

Fiscal year 2003 the Michigan Council for Arts and
Cultural Affairs grant application form, "Artist in Residence for Education
Program," Lansing School District, p. 5. Other work for the "teaching artist"
including dressing up as Cortez and "barking out orders in gibberish so the
students would understand the language problem the Aztecs faced, and how
threatened they felt."